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Franklin Graham brings Decision America tour here Monday
Sixty- four years after his father, Billy Graham, held a crusade in Chattanooga, Franklin Graham will share the gospel at Decision America in Coolidge Park on Monday night, May 15. The evangelistic event is one of four stops in Tennessee that Graham will make; the others are in Clarksville, Jackson and Memphis.
Following 2016’s 50-state Decision America tour, Graham says he felt led to hold more events focused on prayer and evangelism.
“God has given me a burden to go back, this time to preach in medium and smaller cities across states,” Graham says on the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association website.
At each stop, Franklin Graham will lead people in praying for America, their state and local community as well as extend an invitation to the audience to make a decision for Christ. Each stop will include music from guitar- ist and singer Dennis Agajanian, who has traveled the world with Billy and Franklin Graham.
Additionally, Graham will have a featured act with him to perform in each city. The Afters will play in Chattanooga.
The Afters are a Dove Award-winning, Christian pop/rock band founded by Joshua Havens and Matt Fuqua. Havens and Fuqua first worked together in a Starbucks in Mesquite, Texas, where they played for customers before deciding to form a band. Other members of The Afters are Jordan Mohilowski, drums, and Dan Ostebo, bass.
Their song, “Never Going Back to OK,” was the most- played song on R&R magazine’s Christian chart for 2008. In September 2016, the band released its current album, “Live on Forever.”
Everyone planning to attend Decision America should bring a folding lawn chair or blanket for seating.